TWELVE EARTHS SITE 02 ANNOUNCEMENT
Fathomers is pleased to announce Abrigo do Lagar Velho, an ancient rock shelter in the Lapedo Valley of the District of Leiria in Portugal, as the second site in artist Michael Jones McKean’s long-form planetary sculpture Twelve Earths.
AFRORITHMS SYNBIOSIS
Join as we play a specially-themed version of the AfroRithms from the Future game with its creators Dr. Lonny Avi Brooks and Ahmed Best, scribe and facilitator Jade Fabello, and special guest Dr. David Sun Kong of the MIT Media Lab.
PST ART
Fathomers’ exhibition, Emergence, will be be presented as part of Getty’s 2024 PST ART: Art & Science Collide initiative.
1,000 DAYS DOCUMENTATION
Video and images from our gathering and conversation featuring Dr. Drew Endy, Hirokazu Kosaka, Dr. Yewande Pearse and Dr. Jennifer Willet.
TWELVE EARTHS SITE VISIT DOCUMENTATION
This past Summer, Michael Jones McKean was able to visit one of Twelve Earths’ sites to spend time with a group of archaeologists that have been working on an excavation site for over 20 years.
NEA GRANT
The National Endowment for the Arts approves an Art Works grant to Fathomers for the development of The Unarrival Experiments, an ongoing project by artist Sage Ni’Ja Whitson.
ALL THAT LIES OUT OF SIGHT
Join Fathomers’ curator-at-large David Kim for an illuminating conversation with Michael Jones McKean featured in the fall 2019 issue of Art Papers.
MAGID WINS CALDER PRIZE
Congratulations to Jill Magid on receiving the Calder Prize, an award based in part on her performance Awaiting Alexander Calder at the Whitney Museum.
BUY A BRICK!
We've launched our first-ever fundraising effort: the Fathomers Buy-a-Brick Campaign, featuring sculptural mycelium objects that MycoWorks' Phil Ross taught us how to grow.
P&P LAUNCH HIGHLIGHTS
Thank you to all who attended our Problems and Provocations book launch in both NYC and Kansas City. Check out some of the highlights from the launch!
Read MoreAAC CONFERENCE
If you're headed to the 2016 Alliance for Artist Communities Conference, in Portland, check out this Friday break-out session.